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It doesn’t matter how good any of the synthetic suites are, the real meat of the testing has to be under absolute real world conditions. This proves difficult as to record results we have to narrow down fluctuation. Therefore while we would say these are the most useful results to get from this review, there is always going to be a slight margin for error – its not absolutely scientific.
Firstly we installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Edition onto each of the drives and performed a clean update from Microsoft with all patches and security fixes. We then install a basic suite of software, such as Office, Firefox and Adobe Design, then we install AVG free antivirus. We used a digital watch for this startup and repeated the test five times for each drive – once we had these five results we averaged the results and took that for the final figure.
We allowed the RevoDrive Hybrid 1TB to reboot 10 times and measured the increases in performance as the algorithms optimised data paging.
First boot up time is pretty much as we would expect from a mechanical drive without the paging algorithms in place. After the 5th boot, the time is reduced to 27 seconds and by the 10th boot, this has improved further to 20 seconds. We noticed no more gains, after this.
Our STALKER level load showed a 34 second first time result, only slightly faster than a standard mechanical drive. On 3rd load this had reduced to 22 seconds, and we reached a peak of 18 seconds after the 5th boot. Excellent results, even if it was one second slower than the MAX IOPS drive.
yay, kudos to OCZ. about time 🙂
Thats really good. Didnt think that would be possible. Is it just for Windows 7 ?
I was wondering when something like this would be released, and it came quicker than I imagined. There will always be a trade off with a mechanical drive in the mix, but they seem to have it narrowed down a good bit.
great stuff. been waiting for something like this. reckon they could make a 2.5 inch drive like this? obviously it would be much thicker in dimensions and not practical for a laptop, but for a desktop? would make a lot of sense. 1TB sata 6GBps drive right at the limits of the platform for about £350?
This is really incredible. 1tb for under £400 at this speed? OCZ really do lead the way in SSD tech.
How do I know if my motherboard can support this? ive read some dont allow for booting.?
Its still a fair bit of cash. are they making a smaller size? 500gb would be great for £200 🙂
lousy drive for money. seagate has similar pci-e drive with 10X performance for same money.
drashek md
thomasxstewart.
what bollocks. 10GB/s read via a 2.5 inch drive and SSD combo for £400? lol.
Nought to do,
I believe that Segate makes a drive in 300GB and 500GB sizes that is a hybrid SSD and mechanical HDD. I’m pretty sure that it even fits into a laptop. Now, I’m not sure about relative performance and they are pretty pricey for what they are but they do exhist.
Now this OCZ drive, that is a nice piece. I would probably use something like this on my media PC for encoding purposes or the like. My RAID setup seems to slow down when running a lot of reads and writes. I bet that this would be substantially better at doing those type of things.